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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	SpinLaunch kinetic energy launch system

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>SpaceAholic</TD><TD>SpinLaunch release <blockquote>SpinLaunch Secures First Contract for Revolutionary New Space Launch ServicesJonathan Yaney, founder and CEO of SpinLaunch, has announced that the company has been awarded a responsive launch prototype contract from the Department of Defense (DOD), facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spinlaunch_kinetic_launcher01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spinlaunch_kinetic_launcher01.jpg" width="400" height="225" border="0"></a></center>Above: Illustration depicting SpinLaunch orbital vehicle inside the electric kinetic launcher.<a href="http://www.spinlaunch.com/" target="AirLock">SpinLaunch</a> is developing a kinetic energy-based launch system that will provide the world's lowest-cost orbital launch services for the rapidly growing small satellite industry. In 2018, the company received $40 million in a Series A financing round from Airbus Ventures, Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.The recently published State of the Space Industrial Base states that the future and growth of the U.S. space economy is "critically dependent on continuing reductions in the costs and risks associated with launch. There is a bifurcation of launch providers between lower-cost, 'bulk' carriers... and higher-cost, 'niche' providers offering lower lift-mass, but launch to a specific orbit.""SpinLaunch fills this gap by providing dedicated orbital launch with high frequency at a magnitude lower cost than any current 'niche' launch system," stated Yaney. "This will truly be a disruptive enabler for the emerging commercial space industry. There is a promising market surge in the demand for LEO constellations of inexpensive small satellites for disaster monitoring, weather, reconnaissance, communications and other services."In January 2019, SpinLaunch moved from Silicon Valley to its new 140,000 square foot headquarters in Long Beach, California and last month broke ground on a new $7 million test facility on 10 acres at New Mexico's Spaceport America. First kinetic energy flight tests are expected to occur early 2020 and the company has announced its plans for first launch by 2022.</blockquote></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>thisismills</TD><TD>Video of successful test launch on Oct 22.SpinLaunch used a suborbital accelerator at one-third scale which is more than 300 feet tall, roughly equivalent to the Statue of Liberty's height. <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z6esOcWrrEE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

SpaceAholic

NASA has signed a contract with SpinLaunch to fly and recover a payload as part of a developmental test flight that could lead to future launches.

"What started as an innovative idea to make space more accessible has materialized into a technically mature and game-changing approach to launch," founder and CEO Jonathan Yaney said in a statement last week.
SpinLaunch was founded in 2014 to develop an alternative to conventional rockets for reaching beyond Earth's atmosphere, which Yaney says it can do with less than 30 percent of the fuel and structures of a typical launch.

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